Action Plan :
Collaboration between School Library Media Specialist, Teachers, Reading Specialist, and Paraprofessionals to develop and hold a Reading Success workshop tailored to motivate students to read and work towards becoming life-long learners.
Part 1
Rationale:
Beuford Edison Franklin High School Media Center is on a mission to inspire our users to become motivated, active, and responsible users of information in order to mold life-long learners. We are fuctioning in a poor, rural town which has an average population. However, this county has a smaller than average population of high school graduates. Inaddition to a smaller than average population of high school graduate​, there is a lack of professional resources for teachers. Nevertheless, Beuford Edison Franklin High School Media Center's vision focuses on "Opening Minds Through Information."
According to Richard T. Vacca and JoAnne Vacca (2005) "All teachers play a critical role in helping students comprehend and respond to information and ideas in text" (p. 1). At Beuford Edison Franklin High School Media Center, we understand the role of teachers, their interactions, and collaborations. Therefore, this action plan focuses on developing a "Reading Success" workshop. With adequate resources, School Library Media Specialist, Reading Specialist, teachers and paraprofessionals can continue their professional development through this workshop. This workshop will encompass data on reading research, mapping, different reading strategies, components of reading, and content area reading. In addition to this workshop, a guest speaker from the Center For Reading Research will offer a free reading workshop which will empower educators about the essentials for reading success.
With this collaboration, School Library Media Specialist will intergrate library resources into classroom curricula, teach reading comprehension strategies using print and digital media, and rev-up reading with interactive maps. Reading Specialist will identify and acquire materials for literacy intervention and teachers will learn different teaching methods, tweak lesson plans and motivate students to read. In esssence, the goal of this action paln is to collaborate in order to develop and implementa successful "Reading Success" workshop.
Part 2 Steps/Timeline/Responsibility:
Step 1: School Library Media Specialist post communications via email and IM to School Principal, Reading Specialist, teachers, and paraprofessionals about Reading Success workshop. Reading Specialist will contact Florida Center for Reading Research to invite Dr. Christopher Lonigan to participate in workshop.
Timeline: June 2010
Responsibility: School Library Media Specialist and Reading Specialist
Step 2: School Library Media Specialist conduct reading workshop meeting with Reading Specialist, teachers and paraprofessionals. Teachers are asked to submit a copy of their lesson plans and curricula to paraprofessional at least 3 weeks prior to the planned reading workshop meeting taking place on August 20, 2010.
Timeline: June 2010
Responsibility: School Library Media Specialist and paraprofessionals
Step 3: Meeting held between School Library Media Specialist, Reading Specialist, teachers, and paraprofessionals to discuss location, time, and date
for reading workshop. Paraprofessional distributes faculty profile forms and gives a deadline of August 4th to return completed forms.
Timeline: July 2010
Responsibility: School Library Media Specialist, Reading Specialist, teachers, and pararprofessionals.
Step 4: Paraprofessionals recieve copies of teacher's lesson plans,curricula, and faculty profile forms.
Timeline: August 2010
Responsibilty: Paraprofessionals
Step 5: Meeting held with School Library Media Specialist, Reading Specialist, teachers, and paraprofessionals to discuss lesson plans and curricula.
Timeline: August 2010
Responsibility: School Library Media Specialist, Reading Specialist, teachers, and paraprofessionals
Part 6: Meeting with School Library Media Specialist, Reading Specialist, teachers, and paraprofessionals to form a consensus on location, date, and time of reading workshop. Consesus is made on the location, date, and time of meeting. The reading workshop will be held on November 12, 2010 from 10:00-2:00, and the location will be in the school multipurpose room. After this meeting, a brief discussion will take place regardingfaculty information profile forms. The faculty information profile forms list the teachers current teaching courses, fields of interests, and current research projects. This information from the faculty profile cards will be forwarded to Dr. Lonigan by the Reading Specialist.
Timeline: September 2010
Responsiblity: School Library Media Specialist, Reading Specialist, teachers, and paraprofessionals.
Part 7: Reading Specialist contacts Dr. Lonigan to commuicate with him about his acceptance of this engagement, the date, time, and location of the reading workshop.
Timeline: September 2010
Responsibility: Reading Specialist
Part 8: School Library Media Specialist, Reading Specialist, and paraprofessionals will communicate with other professional literacy organizations about reading workshop and inquire about donations of materials and resources.
Timeline: September
Responsibility: School Library Media Specialist, Reading Specialist, and paraprofessionals
Step 9: Paraprofessionals communicate with School Library Media Specialist, Reading Specialist, teachers, and guest speaker about last minute preparations for reading workshop. With much anticipation for the reading workshop, the teachers offer to provide a Potluck lunch.
Timeline: October 2010
Responsibility: Paraprofessionals and teachers.
Step 10: Reading Success workshop will be is held in the school multipurpose room. We anticipate, Dr. Lonigan, School Library Media Specialist, Reading Specialist, teachers, and paraprofessionals are in attedance. Meeting is scheduled to last one hour and forty-five minutes. During this time, introductions can be made and Dr. Lonigan will lecture on the topic of "Essentials for Reading Success." After this lecture, a potluck lunch will be served. After lunch, Dr. Lonigan will hold a question and answer session.
Timeline:November 2010
Responsibility: Dr. Lonigan
Step 11: After question and answer session, School Library Media Specialist will share information about intergrating library resources into classroom lesson plans and curricula Then, SLMS will provide activities for teachers on interactive mapping. Paraprofessionals will distribute copies of information on how to use reading toolkits, and Reading Specialist will emphasize the importance of the components of reading and share different reading strategies. Media Specialist will thank Dr. Lonigan and everyone for their participation. Reading Success workshop will conclude.
Timeline: November 2010
Responsilbility: School Library Media Specialsit, paraprofessionals, and Reading Specialist
Step 12: Meeting held by School Library Media Specialist to gather feedback from reading workshop. Reading Specialist, teachers, and paraprofessionals are in attendance and give feedback. School Library Media Specialist and paraprofessionals will suggest to have a consensus on how the reading workshop will be evauluated by the December meeting.
Timeline: December 2010
Responsibility: School Library Media Specialist and paraprofessionals
Step 13: School Library Media Specialist will conduct a meeting with Reading Specialist, teachers, and paraprofessionals for reading workshop evalution consensus. Suggestions will be given for the evaulation for the reading workshop be held in a staff meeting and all participants give verbal feedback to the School Library Media Specialist. The feedback from the attendees will be included in the minutes from the meeting. The minutes will be written into an evaluation report. Then, the School Library Media Specialist will follow protocol.
Timeline: Tenative
Responsibilty: School Library Media Specilaist
Part 3
Budget $855
Purchases for materials, personnel, and printing can possibly be allocated from the following budgets: remedial reading plan and supply budgets. Possibly donations will be contributed by The Florida Center for Reading Research, Florida State College of Education, and The Florida Department of Education. For this media center action plan, we think the listed estimates are approriate for the much needed resources for professional development.
Materials $655
Materials possibly allocated through the remedial reading plan budgets.
Journals $200 -possibel donations from FCRR- remedial reading plan budget
Anthologies $100- possible donations from FSUCOED - remedial plan budget
Workbooks $200- remedial plan budget
Tutorials $70- remedial plan budget
Reading Toolkits $85- possible donations from FLDOE- remedial plan budget
Personnel $100
Personnel possibly allocated through the remedial reading plan budget.
Reading Specialist-$100 supplemental- remedial reading plan buget
Guest speaker - $0- No charge for workshop and lodging. Dr. Lonigan will be on vacation in Florida and offers a free reading workshop.
Lunch-$0. Potluck which will be provided by the teachers.
Supply $100
Printing possibly allocated through the supply budget.
Budget Total: $855
Part 4
Evaluation: Beuford Edison Franklin Media Center's Action Plan will evalute the results of the Reading Success workshop in an evaluation report which will include verbal feedback from the Media Specialist, Reading Specialist, teachers, and paraprofessionals on the progress of this workshop. Evaluations will be conducted every year, and the results will be formatted as a report. The School Media Specialist will forward the evaluation report is to the school principal. Then, the school principal will forward the evaluation report to the school superintendent. The evaluation report will be evaluated, revised, and steered toward future action plans.
Documentation
Books:
National Reading Panel. (1997). An Evidence-Based Assessment of Scientific Research Literature on Reading and Its Implications for Reading Instruction. NIH 00-4754:Washington:D.C.
Vacca, J. & Vacca R.T. (2005). Content Area Reading: Literacy and Learning Across The Curriculum. (8th ed.). New York:NY
Pearson Allyn and Bacon.
Collaboration between School Library Media Specialist, Teachers, Reading Specialist, and Paraprofessionals to develop and hold a Reading Success workshop tailored to motivate students to read and work towards becoming life-long learners.
Part 1
Rationale:
Beuford Edison Franklin High School Media Center is on a mission to inspire our users to become motivated, active, and responsible users of information in order to mold life-long learners. We are fuctioning in a poor, rural town which has an average population. However, this county has a smaller than average population of high school graduates. Inaddition to a smaller than average population of high school graduate​, there is a lack of professional resources for teachers. Nevertheless, Beuford Edison Franklin High School Media Center's vision focuses on "Opening Minds Through Information."
According to Richard T. Vacca and JoAnne Vacca (2005) "All teachers play a critical role in helping students comprehend and respond to information and ideas in text" (p. 1). At Beuford Edison Franklin High School Media Center, we understand the role of teachers, their interactions, and collaborations. Therefore, this action plan focuses on developing a "Reading Success" workshop. With adequate resources, School Library Media Specialist, Reading Specialist, teachers and paraprofessionals can continue their professional development through this workshop. This workshop will encompass data on reading research, mapping, different reading strategies, components of reading, and content area reading. In addition to this workshop, a guest speaker from the Center For Reading Research will offer a free reading workshop which will empower educators about the essentials for reading success.
With this collaboration, School Library Media Specialist will intergrate library resources into classroom curricula, teach reading comprehension strategies using print and digital media, and rev-up reading with interactive maps. Reading Specialist will identify and acquire materials for literacy intervention and teachers will learn different teaching methods, tweak lesson plans and motivate students to read. In esssence, the goal of this action paln is to collaborate in order to develop and implement a successful "Reading Success" workshop.
Part 2
Steps/Timeline/Responsibility:
Step 1: School Library Media Specialist post communications via email and IM to School Principal, Reading Specialist, teachers, and paraprofessionals about Reading Success workshop. Reading Specialist will contact Florida Center for Reading Research to invite Dr. Christopher Lonigan to participate in workshop.
Timeline: June 2010
Responsibility: School Library Media Specialist and Reading Specialist
Step 2: School Library Media Specialist conduct reading workshop meeting with Reading Specialist, teachers and paraprofessionals. Teachers are asked to submit a copy of their lesson plans and curricula to paraprofessional at least 3 weeks prior to the planned reading workshop meeting taking place on August 20, 2010.
Timeline: June 2010
Responsibility: School Library Media Specialist and paraprofessionals
Step 3: Meeting held between School Library Media Specialist, Reading Specialist, teachers, and paraprofessionals to discuss location, time, and date
for reading workshop. Paraprofessional distributes faculty profile forms and gives a deadline of August 4th to return completed forms.
Timeline: July 2010
Responsibility: School Library Media Specialist, Reading Specialist, teachers, and pararprofessionals.
Step 4: Paraprofessionals recieve copies of teacher's lesson plans,curricula, and faculty profile forms.
Timeline: August 2010
Responsibilty: Paraprofessionals
Step 5: Meeting held with School Library Media Specialist, Reading Specialist, teachers, and paraprofessionals to discuss lesson plans and curricula.
Timeline: August 2010
Responsibility: School Library Media Specialist, Reading Specialist, teachers, and paraprofessionals
Part 6: Meeting with School Library Media Specialist, Reading Specialist, teachers, and paraprofessionals to form a consensus on location, date, and time of reading workshop. Consesus is made on the location, date, and time of meeting. The reading workshop will be held on November 12, 2010 from 10:00-2:00, and the location will be in the school multipurpose room. After this meeting, a brief discussion will take place regarding faculty information profile forms. The faculty information profile forms list the teachers current teaching courses, fields of interests, and current research projects. This information from the faculty profile cards will be forwarded to Dr. Lonigan by the Reading Specialist.
Timeline: September 2010
Responsiblity: School Library Media Specialist, Reading Specialist, teachers, and paraprofessionals.
Part 7: Reading Specialist contacts Dr. Lonigan to commuicate with him about his acceptance of this engagement, the date, time, and location of the reading workshop.
Timeline: September 2010
Responsibility: Reading Specialist
Part 8: School Library Media Specialist, Reading Specialist, and paraprofessionals will communicate with other professional literacy organizations about reading workshop and inquire about donations of materials and resources.
Timeline: September
Responsibility: School Library Media Specialist, Reading Specialist, and paraprofessionals
Step 9: Paraprofessionals communicate with School Library Media Specialist, Reading Specialist, teachers, and guest speaker about last minute preparations for reading workshop. With much anticipation for the reading workshop, the teachers offer to provide a Potluck lunch.
Timeline: October 2010
Responsibility: Paraprofessionals and teachers.
Step 10: Reading Success workshop will be is held in the school multipurpose room. We anticipate, Dr. Lonigan, School Library Media Specialist, Reading Specialist, teachers, and paraprofessionals are in attedance. Meeting is scheduled to last one hour and forty-five minutes. During this time, introductions can be made and Dr. Lonigan will lecture on the topic of "Essentials for Reading Success." After this lecture, a potluck lunch will be served. After lunch, Dr. Lonigan will hold a question and answer session.
Timeline:November 2010
Responsibility: Dr. Lonigan
Step 11: After question and answer session, School Library Media Specialist will share information about intergrating library resources into classroom lesson plans and curricula Then, SLMS will provide activities for teachers on interactive mapping. Paraprofessionals will distribute copies of information on how to use reading toolkits, and Reading Specialist will emphasize the importance of the components of reading and share different reading strategies. Media Specialist will thank Dr. Lonigan and everyone for their participation. Reading Success workshop will conclude.
Timeline: November 2010
Responsilbility: School Library Media Specialsit, paraprofessionals, and Reading Specialist
Step 12: Meeting held by School Library Media Specialist to gather feedback from reading workshop. Reading Specialist, teachers, and paraprofessionals are in attendance and give feedback. School Library Media Specialist and paraprofessionals will suggest to have a consensus on how the reading workshop will be evauluated by the December meeting.
Timeline: December 2010
Responsibility: School Library Media Specialist and paraprofessionals
Step 13: School Library Media Specialist will conduct a meeting with Reading Specialist, teachers, and paraprofessionals for reading workshop evalution consensus. Suggestions will be given for the evaulation for the reading workshop be held in a staff meeting and all participants give verbal feedback to the School Library Media Specialist. The feedback from the attendees will be included in the minutes from the meeting. The minutes will be written into an evaluation report. Then, the School Library Media Specialist will follow protocol.
Timeline: Tenative
Responsibilty: School Library Media Specilaist
Part 3
Budget $855
Purchases for materials, personnel, and printing can possibly be allocated from the following budgets: remedial reading plan and supply budgets. Possibly donations will be contributed by The Florida Center for Reading Research, Florida State College of Education, and The Florida Department of Education. For this media center action plan, we think the listed estimates are approriate for the much needed resources for professional development.
Materials $655
Materials possibly allocated through the remedial reading plan budgets.
Journals $200 -possibel donations from FCRR- remedial reading plan budget
Anthologies $100- possible donations from FSUCOED - remedial plan budget
Workbooks $200- remedial plan budget
Tutorials $70- remedial plan budget
Reading Toolkits $85- possible donations from FLDOE- remedial plan budget
Personnel $100
Personnel possibly allocated through the remedial reading plan budget.
Reading Specialist-$100 supplemental- remedial reading plan buget
Guest speaker - $0- No charge for workshop and lodging. Dr. Lonigan will be on vacation in Florida and offers a free reading workshop.
Lunch-$0. Potluck which will be provided by the teachers.
Supply $100
Printing possibly allocated through the supply budget.
Budget Total: $855
Part 4
Evaluation: Beuford Edison Franklin Media Center's Action Plan will evalute the results of the Reading Success workshop in an evaluation report which will include verbal feedback from the Media Specialist, Reading Specialist, teachers, and paraprofessionals on the progress of this workshop. Evaluations will be conducted every year, and the results will be formatted as a report. The School Media Specialist will forward the evaluation report is to the school principal. Then, the school principal will forward the evaluation report to the school superintendent. The evaluation report will be evaluated, revised, and steered toward future action plans.
Documentation
Books:
National Reading Panel. (1997). An Evidence-Based Assessment of Scientific Research Literature on Reading and Its Implications for Reading
Instruction. NIH 00-4754:Washington:D.C.
Vacca, J. & Vacca R.T. (2005). Content Area Reading: Literacy and Learning Across The Curriculum. (8th ed.). New York:NY
Pearson Allyn and Bacon.
Websites:
Academic Therapy Publications. (1965). CORE:Teaching Reading Sourcebook. Retrieved on November 12, 2009.
from:http://www.academictheraphy.com/support/sourcebook
ALA. (2006). American Association of School Librarians 2009 National Conference: Rev Up Learning. Retrieved November 17, 2009.
from: http://www.ala/mgrps/div/aasl/conferenceandevents/national/ALA
ALA. (2002). School Library Media Specialist's Role in Reading Toolkit. Retrieved on November 13, 2009
from:http://www.ala.org/mgrps/div/aal/aaslissues/toolkits/slmsroleinreading.cfm
Florida Center for Reading Research. (2002). Essentials for Reading Success. Retrieved on November 12, 2009
from:http://www.fcrr.org
Layfayette County Schools, Florida. (1984). County Information. Retrieved on November 14, 2009.
from:http://publicrecords.onlinesearches.com/FL Layfeyette.htm